Redfin offers five tips on how to best integrate windows into contemporary home styles.
Window placement needs to be balanced so that light can reach as far into a house as possible, and proper airflow techniques include stacked ventilation, which creates updrafts that shifts warm air outdoors and away from living areas.
Tip No. 4 is to erase the divide between interior and exterior.
Walls of windows or patio doors can help connect the interior of a home with the immediate surroundings. Thresholds are minimized, rooflines blend into tree lines and outdoor spaces become your expanded living space.